Democracy Quotes
True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.
Salmon Portland Chase
Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
Stuart Chase
The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.
John Kerry
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.
James Bovard
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. Chesterton
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.
Allan David Bloom
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle
We\'re not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Repugnance at the power of the people, at the fact that the popular taste should rule in all arenas of life, is very rare in a modern democracy. One of the intellectual charms of Marxism is that it explains the injustice or philistinism of the people in such a way as to exculpate the people, who are said to be manipulated by corrupt elites.
Allan David Bloom
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
